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MN Considering Taxing Social Media Apps Minnesota’s Senate Taxes Committee heard a bill ( SB 3197 ) last week that would make the state the first in the nation to tax social media apps. The measure...
AR Lawmakers Pass Bill Banning PBMs from Running Pharmacies The Arkansas legislature passed a bill ( HB 1150 ) that would make the state the first in the nation to prohibit pharmacy benefit managers...
The days of simply setting a price for goods or services and waiting for customers to accept it are gone. Thanks to predictive pricing , businesses of all sorts can now use data analytics, machine learning...
‘Predictive Pricing’ Top Priority for CA Lawmakers Predictive pricing, a practice involving the use of artificial intelligence to set prices for customers based on factors like the websites...
Patchwork of Paid Leave Laws Set to Continue There’s currently no federal law requiring paid leave. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 only requires employers to provide unpaid time...
The board of directors of OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, announced on the company’s blog last week that its CEO Sam Altman would be stepping down. The blog post said the company had conducted “a deliberative review process” and “concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”
Shortly after the announcement, the company’s chairman and cofounder, Greg Brockman, quit in protest. He later posted information suggested Altman’s ouster had been orchestrated by the company’s chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever. Other accounts suggested Sutskever and Altman disagreed about the company’s ability to safely develop more advanced AI technology. (CNBC, WIRED)
Legislation (SB 454) has been prefiled for Florida’s 2024 session that would require social media companies to protect children from content that “promotes, glorifies, or facilitates grooming, solicitation, child pornography, or other sexual exploitation or abuse.” The bill would require social media companies to build age verification and parental controls into their platforms, as well as employ algorithms capable of identifying predatory or inappropriate behavior involving minors. (FLORIDIAN PRESS, STATE NET)
Michigan lawmakers sent a package of bills (HB 5141, HB 5143, and HB 5144) addressing the use of artificial intelligence in elections to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). The measures require disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence in political advertising, define artificial intelligence and prohibit the intentional distribution of “materially deceptive media,” also known as a “deepfake.” (MICHIGAN ADVANCE, STATE NET)
The Ohio Senate unanimously passed a bill (SB 29) that would prohibit technology providers under contract with Ohio schools from selling or sharing student data. If a contract ended, providers would be required to return or destroy the data they’d collected. (STATEHOUSE NEWS BUREAU, STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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